Louis Philippe- Ventures into Mens Footwear

Overall Market of Footwear in India: 30,000 cr.

Branded Footwear Market: 2000 cr.

Expects the new category to contribute at least 15% of the turnover.

COO of Louis Philippe: Vishak Kumar

No. Of Stores where footwear range is available: 130

Price: 2999 to 4999

Global and Local sourcing: 1 lakh pairs a year

Growth of Louis Philippe Brand: 20% per year

Tatas to Foray into Footwear Retailing

Tata Group:

1. $70.8 Billion group

2. Alreay has two retail ventures: Chroma and Trent ( Which has Westside, Star Bazaar and Landmark)

3. Tata International: Planning to set up a retail chain for footwear. with their first Store in Delhi

5. The company is already supplying shoes and leather products to Marks and Spenser, Zara, Betty Barclay, Mango, Hush Puppies and Escada.



6. In India it is supplying to Westside, Shoppers Stop and Raymond.

7. It has one of the largest Tanneries in the world in Dewas, MP. It also has a manufacturing unit in Chennai.

8. Chroma : under infinity Retail : Hope to grow into a 100 store brand.

9. Star Bazaar: Hyper market format: Technical expertise from Tesco of UK: Plan to scale up to 18 storres by 2011.



10. Westside: A department store. Signed up with Inditex and promotes stores that will exclusively sell the Zara brand in India.

11. Trent: Headed by Noel Tata

12. Chroma: Headed by R.K. Krishna Kumar.


13. Tata International: Chairman: B. Muthuraman, Executive Director: K. Kaul